Let $B=\mathcal{O}_R\left(GL(n)\right)$ be a localization of the algebra $A(R)$ of functions on the quantum formal group corresponding to the matrix $R$ ["Quantization of Lie groups and Lie algebras", ...

Is the expression "control of a deformation problem' ever defined? There are of course many examples relating a dg-Lie or L-infty algebra to a deformation problem, and the phrase is evocative. Is it ...

The category $\mathcal{C}_l$ of tilting modules of the quantum group $U_q(sl_2)$ quotiented out by the modules of zero quantum dimension has a natural structure as a semisimple monoidal category when ...

A finite group $G$ is perfect if $G = G^{(1)} := \langle [G,G] \rangle$.
Proposition: A finite group $G$ is perfect iff any $1$-dimensional complex representation of $G$ is trivial.
proof: First if ...

Consider the density matrices with the following spectral decompositions:
$$\rho=\lambda_1|\nu_1\rangle+\lambda_{2}|\nu_2\rangle$$
and
$$\sigma=\gamma_1|\omega_1\rangle+\gamma_2|\omega_2\rangle$$
such ...

Let $(G,R)$ be a coquasitriangular Hopf algebra, which we furthermore assume to be cosemisimple. Generalising classical Peter-Weyl, cosemisimplicity of $G$ is well-known to imply an isomorphism
$$
G ...

Being far from the field of quantum groups, I have nevertheless made in the past several (unsuccessful) attempts to understand their definition and basic properties. The goal of this post is to try to ...

For a fusion category $\mathcal{C}$ the Brauer-Picard group $\text{BrPic}(\mathcal{C})$ is the group of all invertible $\mathcal{C}$-bimodule categories under multplication $\boxtimes_\mathcal{C}$.
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Let $\mathcal{C}$ be a fusion category and $H$ a semi-simple finite weak Hopf algebra such that $\mathcal{C}(H) = \mathcal{C}$.
Suppose that for every nontrivial left coideal subalgebras $S$ of $H$ or ...

First some background: Given a simple Lie algebra $\mathfrak{g}$ over an algebraically closed field of characteristic 0 such as $\mathbb{C}$, fix a Cartan decomposition $\mathfrak{g} = \mathfrak{h} ...

Every self-dual simple object $X$ in a fusion category can canonically be assigned a number $a$, from its "snake" associator element:
The square of $a$ equals Muger's "squared dimension" of $X$, an ...

For quantum group $U_q(n)$, is it true that it has exactly two non-isomorphic irreducible corepresentations with dimension $n$, and that one is the dual of the other? I know result is in the Chapter ...

The definition of the Jones polynomial of tangles (a la Reshetikhin and Turaev) uses the space of invariants for $U_q sl_2$ and R-matrices. It seems to me the same thing cane be done in terms of the ...

Consider a compact quantum group $G$. Let $a, b$ and $c$ be irreducible unitary corepresentations and assume that $c$ is contained in $a \otimes b$. Let $U$ be the intertwiner from the representation ...

Fix a ground field $k$. By a linear category I will mean an Abelian category which is compatibly enriched over $k$-vector spaces. A linear category is called finite if it satisfies the following four ...

I would like to understand how a computer program for computing Khovanov homology works. The particular program I have in mind is by John Baldwin: https://web.math.princeton.edu/~baldwinj/Kh.cpp
The ...

I'm skimming through Turaev's "Quantum invariants of knots and 3-manifolds". One of the main results is Theorem 2.5. In my opinion, this Theorem is conceptually half-baked: 1) The ribbon structure on ...

Let $H_{n}$ be the affine Hecke algebra with parameter q, where q is not root of unity.
The classification of irreducible finite dimensional representations has been given by Kazhdan-Lusztig in terms ...

Recall that the Tambara-Yamagami categories are those with fusion ring $\mathbb{Z}[A \cup m]$ where $A$ is an abelian group and $m$ is a non-invertible (simple) object such that $ma = am = m$ for all ...